Solomon Bishop

Solomon Bishop was the Deputy US Attorney for the State of New Jersey and the man behind the prosecution of Atlantic County Treasurer Enoch Thompson for election fraud in 1921.

Biography
Solomon Bishop became Deputy US Attorney for New Jersey under Governor Edward Edwards, and Bishop was ordered to arrest Atlantic County Treasurer and Atlantic City political boss Enoch Thompson at his suite on the eighth floor of the Ritz Carlton Hotel. Bishop and fellow Deputy US Attorney Charles Kenneth Thorogood attempted to convict Thompson, but Judge Ketchum decided that their evidence of prostitution did not prove that Thompson had rigged the 1921 election; with the murders of witness Jim Neary and the withdrawal of a testimony by Paddy Ryan, the case was derailed.